Masashi Kasaki

I'm Associate Professor at the Graduate School/Department of Informatics of  Nagoya University.

I was born and raised in Japan, where I got my BA and MA (Kwansei Gakuin University). I lived in Canada from 2005 to 2013, where I got my PhD (University of Calgary) and did post-doc thereafter. Then, I moved back to Japan to be visiting assistant professor at the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory of Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University. In the past, I taught and/or studied at many institutions, including the University of Calgary, the University of British Columbia, Osaka University, Kyoto University, Nagoya University (Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences), and Hiroshima University. 

I work mainly in Epistemology, Philosophical Methodology, and Experimental Philosophy. The areas or problems I'm especially interested in are Contextualism/Invariantism, Theories of Knowledge, Epistemic Value, Importance of Intuition for Philosophy, and Human-Machine Trust. As a native Japanese speaker, I'm also interested in whether there is any philosophically important difference between English and Japanese. My x-phi research pursues this interest. 

My other philosophical interests range over Philosophy of Language, Mind, Ethics, Meta-Ethics, Action Theory, Phenomenology (my MA thesis is on Husserl), and Comparative Philosophy (contemporary epistemology in the Anglophone world and ancient epistemology in the Chinese tradition). I worked at the Academic Writing Center of Nagoya University, and for this reason, maintain a keen interest in college-level writing education as well.